Thousands of young Albanians marched through Tirana, breaking some windows and traffic lights and scuffling with riot police on the fourth day of an increasingly violent student-led campaign to force Prime Minister Edi Rama to resign https://t.co/9MbOnrxtsk
Criticism is welcomed and encouraged at Bridgewater, but there is never a good reason to bad-mouth people behind their backs. It is counterproductive and shows a serious lack of integrity, it doesn't yield any beneficial change, and it subverts both the person being badmouthed and the environment as a whole. Next to being dishonest, it is the worst thing you can do in our community. #principleoftheday
Thai police report multiple casualties at a school shooting in Nonthaburi Province. Here's our @ChannelNewsAsia live report with everything what we know and what we don't.
The Israeli Air Force has launched a new wave of attacks on Tehran. Huge plumes of smoke were seen rising about the Iranian capital as multiple targets were hit.
Thailand will implement tough new rules governing retail gold-trading from March 1, hoping to curb speculative activity that’s fueled gains in the baht and weakened the nation’s competitiveness. https://t.co/tmQpe7Zo19
Understand the concept of "by-and-large" and use approximations. Because our educational system is hung up on precision, the art of being good at approximations is insufficiently valued. This impedes conceptual thinking. For example, when asked to multiply 38 by 12, most people do it the slow and hard way rather than simply rounding 38 up to 40, rounding 12 down to 10, and quickly determining that the answer is about 400. Look at the ice cream shop example and imagine the value of quickly seeing the approximate relationships between the dots versus taking the time to see all the edges precisely. It would be silly to spend time doing that, yet that's exactly what most people do. "By-and-large" is the level at which you need to understand most things in order to make effective decisions. Whenever a big-picture "by-and-large" statement is made and someone replies "Not always," my instinctual reaction is that we are probably about to dive into the weeds--i.e., into a discussion of the exceptions rather than the rule, and in the process we will lose sight of the rule. #principleoftheday